World Athletics Championships 1983/200 m women

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	44 athletes from 37 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary) August 12th (quarter-finals) August 13th (semi-finals) August 14th (final)
Medalists Marita Koch ( GDR )   Merlene Ottey ( JAM )   Kathy Cook ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's 200-meter race at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 12, 13 and 14, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

44 female sprinters from 37 countries took part in the competition. Won the gold medal, the double Olympic champion ( 1976 / 1980 ) and double European champion ( 1978 / 1982 ) over 400 meters Marita Koch from the German Democratic Republic with 22.13 s, also with the 4 x 400-meter relay of the GDR 1980 Olympic silver medalist and two-time Was European champion (1978/1982) and also became world champion and runner-up in over 100 meters with her 4 x 100 meter relay . Silver went to Merlene Ottey, the 1980 Jamaican Olympic third party, with 22.19 s, and the bronze medal was won by British Vice European Champion from 1982, Kathy Cook, with 22.37 s.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Marita Koch	21.71 s	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

The World Cup record was gradually increased to 22.13 s ( Marita Koch , GDR , in the final on August 14, 1983).

Prelims

August 12, 1983

From the six preliminary runs, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - and also the eight fastest - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Joan Baptiste	United Kingdom	23.34 CR
2	Marita Koch	German Democratic Republic	23.59
3	Liliane Gaschet	France	23.60
4th	Lydia De Vega-Mercado	Philippines	24.45
5	Felicite Bada	Benin	26.98
6th	Marjorie Gentle	Belize	27.90
7th	Annah Mathunjwa	Swaziland	29.38

Run 2

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Florence Griffith	United States	23.05 CR
2	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	23.55
3	Angela Bailey	Canada	23.93
4th	Ruperta Charles	Antigua and Barbuda	24.11
5	Koumba edge	Guinea	27.86
6th	Rose Phillips-King	British Virgin Islands	28.50
	Amie Ndow	Gambia	DSQ

Run 3

Wind: +2.5 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Kathy Cook	United Kingdom	23.20
2	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.37
3	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	23.53
4th	Štepánka Sokolová	Czechoslovakia	23.82
5	Rufina Ubah	Nigeria	24.12
6th	Margarita Grun	Uruguay	24.84
7th	Sandra Liburd	St. Christopher Nevis Anguilla	26.13
8th	Cornelia Baptiste	St. Lucia	26.29

Run 4

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	23.09
2	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	23.21
3	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	23.31
4th	Ute Thimm	BR Germany	23.56
5	Sandra Whittaker	United Kingdom	23.63
6th	Mo Myong-hee	South Korea	24.63
7th	Evelyne Farrell	Netherlands Antilles	25.52
8th	Florence Gaza	Solomon Islands	30.43

Run 5

Wind: -1.9 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	23.23
2	Irina Olchownikova	Soviet Union	23.65
3	Helina Marjamaa	Finland	23.82
4th	Dorthe A. Rasmussen	Denmark	23.84
5	Lena Möller	Sweden	23.99
6th	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	25.59
7th	Judith Nimpaye	Burundi	30.25

Run 6

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Randy Givens	United States	23.01 CR
2	Elena Vinogradova	Soviet Union	23.37
3	Denise Boyd	Australia	23.38
4th	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	23.57
5	Mary Mensah	Ghana	24.91
6th	Marisol Garcia	Nicaragua	25.92
7th	Marie-Ange Wirtz	Seychelles	26.13

Quarter finals

August 12, 1983

From the four quarter-finals, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	23.06
2	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	23.22
3	Denise Boyd	Australia	23.28
4th	Irina Olchownikova	Soviet Union	23.48
5	Dorthe A. Rasmussen	Denmark	23.61
6th	Ute Thimm	BR Germany	23.68
7th	Lydia De Vega-Mercado	Philippines	24.16
	Mary Mensah	Ghana	DNS

Run 2

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Kathy Cook	United Kingdom	22.78 CR
2	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.93
3	Helina Marjamaa	Finland	23.11
4th	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	23.14
5	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	23.30
6th	Štepánka Sokolová	Czechoslovakia	23.75
7th	Margarita Grun	Uruguay	24.59
8th	Mo Myong-hee	South Korea	24.74

Run 3

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.38 CR
2	Florence Griffith	United States	22.55
3	Angela Bailey	Canada	23.25
4th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.58
5	Sandra Whittaker	United Kingdom	23.58
6th	Pauline Davis-Thompson	Bahamas	23.64
7th	Rufina Ubah	Nigeria	24.72
	Evelyne Farrell	Netherlands Antilles	DNS

Run 4

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	German Democratic Republic	23.03
2	Joan Baptiste	United Kingdom	23.29
3	Liliane Gaschet	France	23.38
4th	Randy Givens	United States	23.43
5	Lena Möller	Sweden	23.56
6th	Elena Vinogradova	Soviet Union	23.60
7th	Ruperta Charles	Antigua and Barbuda	24.09
	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	DNS

Semifinals

August 13, 1983

From the two semi-finals, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +2.1 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Florence Griffith	United States	22.41
2	Kathy Cook	United Kingdom	22.57
3	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	22.62
4th	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	22.76
5	Helina Marjamaa	Finland	22.86
6th	Denise Boyd	Australia	23.26
7th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.36
8th	Irina Olchownikova	Soviet Union	23.38

Run 2

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	German Democratic Republic	22.67
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.68
3	Angela Bailey	Canada	22.82
4th	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	23.02
5	Joan Baptiste	United Kingdom	23.24
6th	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	23.26
7th	Randy Givens	United States	23.34
8th	Liliane Gaschet	France	23.37

final

World champion Marita Koch, double Olympic champion ( 1976 / 1980 ) and double European champion ( 1978 / 1982 ) over 400 meters , here with their sprint relay also world champion and about 100 meters Vice World Champion

August 14, 1983

Wind: -2.4 m / s

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	Marita Koch	German Democratic Republic	22.13 CR
	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.19
	Kathy Cook	United Kingdom	22.37
4th	Florence Griffith	United States	22.46
5	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	22.63
6th	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	22.68
7th	Angela Bailey	Canada	22.93
8th	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	23.03

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  Vice world champion Merlene Ottey,
  1980 Olympic third

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  Florence Griffith, later extremely successful as Florence Griffith-Joyner, took fourth place

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  Ewa Kasprzyk (here in 2011) came in eighth place

Video

• 1983 World Champs 200m Final women on youtube.com, accessed April 11, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 11, 2020
• Women 200m Athletics I World Championship 1983 Helsinki, Finland on todor66.com, accessed April 11, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, p. 254f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 11, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 11, 2020